A Family Tapestry

  The value to a family historian of finding a document which included not only country of birth, but city as well, cannot be understated. F...

  One of the benefits embedded in the otherwise difficult challenge of researching my godmother 's Russian heritage was a naming device ...

  The key to unlocking the hidden story of someone's family through the generations is to remember that genealogy represents a chain of ...

  What we've "got" in our never-ending pursuit of our family's history is turning out to be far more than genealogists hav...

  Sometimes, it takes the patience of a saint to be a lowly consumer. Here in the nether reaches of economic progress, we get the feeling th...

  Finding aids are invaluable resources for the family historian, piecing together her family's story one painstaking step at a time. So...

  Turns out, researching my godmother Genia Melnitchenko's maternal line provides a good lesson in the necessity of grasping the history...